CF6-50
E561988
The CF6-50 is a widely used, higher-thrust variant of General Electric’s CF6 turbofan engine developed for wide-body commercial airliners in the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| CF6-50 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5955928 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CF6-50 Context triple: [General Electric CF6, notableVariant, CF6-50]
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A.
CF6-6
The CF6-6 is an early, lower-thrust member of General Electric’s CF6 high-bypass turbofan engine family, used primarily to power wide-body commercial airliners.
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B.
CF6-80A
The CF6-80A is an early, high-bypass turbofan variant in General Electric’s CF6 engine family, developed primarily to power wide-body commercial airliners.
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C.
CF6-80E1A3
The CF6-80E1A3 is a variant of General Electric’s CF6 high-bypass turbofan engine series, commonly used to power wide-body commercial airliners such as the Airbus A330.
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D.
C50
C50 is a popular model of Honda’s Super Cub series of small, fuel-efficient commuter motorcycles, known for their durability and widespread use worldwide.
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E.
C595
C595 is the designation for an ASTM standard specification covering blended hydraulic cements used in construction.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CF6-50 Target entity description: The CF6-50 is a widely used, higher-thrust variant of General Electric’s CF6 turbofan engine developed for wide-body commercial airliners in the 1970s.
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A.
CF6-6
The CF6-6 is an early, lower-thrust member of General Electric’s CF6 high-bypass turbofan engine family, used primarily to power wide-body commercial airliners.
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B.
CF6-80A
The CF6-80A is an early, high-bypass turbofan variant in General Electric’s CF6 engine family, developed primarily to power wide-body commercial airliners.
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C.
CF6-80E1A3
The CF6-80E1A3 is a variant of General Electric’s CF6 high-bypass turbofan engine series, commonly used to power wide-body commercial airliners such as the Airbus A330.
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D.
C50
C50 is a popular model of Honda’s Super Cub series of small, fuel-efficient commuter motorcycles, known for their durability and widespread use worldwide.
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E.
C595
C595 is the designation for an ASTM standard specification covering blended hydraulic cements used in construction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aircraft engine
ⓘ
turbofan engine ⓘ |
| aircraftCategoryServed | commercial transport aircraft ⓘ |
| application |
cargo aircraft
ⓘ
long-haul passenger aircraft ⓘ |
| bypassType | high-bypass ⓘ |
| configuration | twin-spool turbofan ⓘ |
| coolingMethod | air-cooled turbine components ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designGoal | higher thrust for larger and heavier aircraft ⓘ |
| developer |
General Electric Aviation
ⓘ
linked to:
GE Aviation
|
| developmentPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| engineType | high-bypass turbofan ⓘ |
| familyGeneration | early CF6 series ⓘ |
| fuelType | aviation kerosene ⓘ |
| ignitionSystem | dual ignition ⓘ |
| intendedUse | wide-body commercial airliners ⓘ |
| manufacturer | General Electric ⓘ |
| market | civil aviation ⓘ |
| marketIntroductionEra | early wide-body jet age ⓘ |
| marketSegment | medium- to long-range wide-body aircraft ⓘ |
| notableFeature | increased thrust compared to earlier CF6 variants ⓘ |
| partOfFamily | General Electric CF6 ⓘ |
| role | primary powerplant for wide-body jets ⓘ |
| status | in commercial service ⓘ |
| technologyLevel | first-generation high-bypass turbofan ⓘ |
| thrustClass | higher-thrust variant of CF6 ⓘ |
| thrustIncreaseRelativeTo | earlier CF6 variants ⓘ |
| usage | widely used by airlines worldwide ⓘ |
| usedOnAircraftType | wide-body jetliners ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: CF6-50 Description of subject: The CF6-50 is a widely used, higher-thrust variant of General Electric’s CF6 turbofan engine developed for wide-body commercial airliners in the 1970s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.